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...term was coined by a covey of professors at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government--Joseph S. Nye Jr., Graham T. Allison and Albert Carnesale. In their book Hawks, Doves, and Owls: An Agenda for Avoiding Nuclear War, they urge a series of steps to minimize the risk of a catastrophic accident. Among them: upgrading the hotline by creating crisis-control centers, establishing sanctions against nuclear proliferation, replacing short-range nuclear weapons in Europe with conventional warheads, holding regular meetings between U.S. and Soviet military leaders, and adding safety devices to prevent the inadvertent launching of submarine-based...
Another aircraft brought the new, aggressive response into focus: an EgyptAir Boeing 737 with the hawk-faced image of Horus, the ancient Egyptian god of the sky, emblazoned on its tail. Late in November, Egyptian commandos stormed the aircraft at Valletta's Luqa International Airport on Malta in a bid to rescue 79 passengers and crew aboard who had survived 24 hours of horror. When the rescue mission was over, three Palestinian hijackers were dead, but so were 60 travelers...
...prosaic commuter craft drops out of a blue-black sky and taxis down the flight line, past Rockwell International, which is testing the B-1B bomber; past General Dynamics and the F-16; past Fairchild Republic and its T-46 trainers; past the Army, testing Black Hawk helicopters; past McDonnell Douglas, at work on the F-15; and just beyond the Air Force and its antisatellite system; and comes to rest outside the Northrop hangar, wherein the Tigershark resides. Our innocent is not met by a sales rep; rather, Roy Martin, a test pilot, blond and angular and wearing...
This is not the Paul Wolfowitz the world is used to seeing. On a lush hillside in Rwanda last week, Wolfowitz - the über-hawk, the architect of the Iraq war, the embodiment of everything that the Bush Administration's critics find detestable about U.S. foreign policy - was talking about coffee. Standing beside tables of drying coffee under the beating sun, Wolfowitz, just two weeks into his new role as president of the World Bank, picked up a bean and asked a worker how he could tell that it was a good one. It's the color, the man said...
Giamatti appreciates the sympathy, and he is happy to play a lead when the fit is right (he's a bird-loving auto upholsterer in this fall's indie The Hawk Is Dying), but really, he'll do anything. "I love that up-at-2-a.m.-and-a-bizarre-movie-comes-on feeling," says Giamatti. "I enjoy being in those things." One of them, Duets, a 2000 karaoke-road-trip killing-spree film that the New York Times said "flops around like a carp on the kitchen floor," was actually not bad enough for his taste. "In the script there...